Daily Archives: December 4, 2015

http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=30188 Just yesterday Trump told Yahoo News that he would support the development of databases and other systems to track and monitor people in the US on the basis of their religion. He didn’t rule out forcing Muslims to have identifying papers or badges. Perhaps he would make them wear a star and crescent in…

by Charles Fredricks We came from LA, Toronto and Alaska, to witness the results of a race for one district of the Seattle City Council. We knew the results of this election had the potential to reach far beyond Seattle’s city limits. As Chris Hedges put it, I want to stress how important the re-election…

by Ron Spriestersbach About four years ago, an uprising broke out against the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. Today the war there consists of several intertwining conflicts, especially with the addition of the tremendous thrust of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or “Daesh” as it is nicknamed in Arabic, which took over…

by Greg Foisie — CSULA grad student and Change-Links/peace movement volunteer 50 years of counter culture and nothing to show for it? After fleeing suburbia for the hippie dream, being blessed with delayed adolescence and reincarnation as a peace punk for over a decade, and living communally for over 20 years in the process, I…

by Naomi Klein ( Excerpted from The Guardian, UK) Whose security gets protected by any means necessary? Whose security is casually sacrificed, despite the means to do so much better? Those are the questions at the heart of the climate crisis, and why climate summits often end in acrimony and tears. The French government’s decision…